As we know, there is no cure for the cold, and we often have no choice but to suck it up for a sniffly 4-5 days...
As a doctor in Singapore, an international travel hub, I am exposed to a huge selection of germs every day. (And people ask me all the time how I prevent myself from catching everything!)
With my degree in Healthcare management (Imperial Business School) I learned quite abit about the healthcare systems in the UK and can contrast this with Singapore. Therefore I am often asked to advise and comment on the local system.
I know in Singapore people doctor hop for various reasons. Convenience and cost being the main ones, despite how lovely their doctors are.
However, one of the beauties of family medicine is the depth of diagnostic power we have when we see a patient longitudinally. This dimension of care is lost when you chop and change your doctor with each episode of illness.
Coeliac (Or Celiac) Disease is an autoimmune condition where the body is unable to break down gluten containing peptides, and the body then attacks and causes inflammation in the intestine
A study conducted on 300,000 children showed Autism rates in Japan continued to rise after the withdrawal of MMR vaccine.
This is in contrast to the poorly designed study on 10,000 children, published in the Lancet in 1998.
Thimersol (contains amounts of ethylmercury) has never been used in the manufacture of MMR vaccines and there is not a scientific link between ethylmercury and autism.
The greatest worry in chicken is antibiotic use, not hormones.
In 1957 the average growth period for an eating chicken to reach slaughter weight was 63 days. By the 1990s the number of growth days had been reduced to 38 and the amount of feed required halved.
Neurologists have linked music awareness to improved brain development, in particular areas of the brain involved in processing sound, language development, speech perception and reading skills.
We also know that music has the potential to heal and has been used effectively as complementary therapy in reducing depression, anxiety and pain.
